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get the blue. >>> the david petraeus sex scandal has snared the top u.s. military commander in afghanistan. john allen is now under investigation for allegedly sending inappropriate messages to jill kelley. yes, the same woman who claims she received threatening e-mails from petraeus' mistress paula broadwell. and we're not just talking about a couple of e-mails. pentagon investigators are coming through 20 to 30,000 pages of documents. with me now is retired u.s. army general and cnn contributor spider marks joining me via skype from virginia. when you look at the sheer number of documents that they're looking at, 20,000 to 30,000 pages of documents, how do you react to that? what was your first thought? >> well, if true, if it is that type of volume of traffic, this is one busy guy spending a lot of time talking to an honorary ambassador between the community and tampa in the air force base. he's got a lot of discretionary time on his hand and, frankly, that's not the case. so it's very, very troubling to see that an individual like this would at least p
get the blue. >>> the david petraeus sex scandal has snared the top u.s. military commander in afghanistan. john allen is now under investigation for allegedly sending inappropriate messages to jill kelley. yes, the same woman who claims she received threatening e-mails from petraeus' mistress paula broadwell. and we're not just talking about a couple of e-mails. pentagon investigators are coming through 20 to 30,000 pages of documents. with me now is retired u.s. army general and cnn...
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david petraeus is just the latest. but there is always that lingering question, especially in this age of nonstop news and sports, social media, why, why take the risk. take a look at this from martin savidge. >> politics and sex scandals are nothing new in the u.s. in fact, they date back to our country's beginning. >> of course, look, if we wanted to see what our founding fathers' behavior was like in philadelphia in 1776, may not like all of the answers. >> more recently, president john f. kennedy's affairs were notorious. lyndon johnson was such a man with the ladies that he allegedly had a buzzer installed in his congressional office to alert him when lady bird johnson was on the way. journalists never reported on such things back in the day. but that eventually changed. so did technology. and recently it is the digital footprint of dalliances that have led to some spectacular falls. remember congressman anthony weiner? he tweeted a photo of his privates. the story broke, he denied it, claiming his twitter account
david petraeus is just the latest. but there is always that lingering question, especially in this age of nonstop news and sports, social media, why, why take the risk. take a look at this from martin savidge. >> politics and sex scandals are nothing new in the u.s. in fact, they date back to our country's beginning. >> of course, look, if we wanted to see what our founding fathers' behavior was like in philadelphia in 1776, may not like all of the answers. >> more recently,...
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now, this new twist, david petraeus, will testify after all. despite the fact he stepped down, he will speak before the lawmakers about these attacks this killed ambassador chris stevens and three of his american colleagues back in september. the cia of course became involved, directly involved in this when the suspected jihadist attacked u.s. facilities in benghazi. general petraeus was scheduled to testify this week. now, that as we know was derailed by the scandal. senator john mccain is one of several republican lawmakers remanding more information from the obama administration on just what the heck happened in benghazi and around benghazi. he's scheduled to give a news conference at the bottom of the hour and we are going to have measure on that. our dana bash has been doing the best she can to take in all of the information. listen, this is tricky. so many of these stories are interconnected. there is a lot of reporting. not all confirmed, but u maybe just start with this. how has this matter worked out that general petraeus will indeed s
now, this new twist, david petraeus, will testify after all. despite the fact he stepped down, he will speak before the lawmakers about these attacks this killed ambassador chris stevens and three of his american colleagues back in september. the cia of course became involved, directly involved in this when the suspected jihadist attacked u.s. facilities in benghazi. general petraeus was scheduled to testify this week. now, that as we know was derailed by the scandal. senator john mccain is one...
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is the source of all of her information david petraeus? given her extraordinary access to the former director of the cia, it would have been a reasonable assumption, but, again, her access to him was not in any way in an official capacity, hoe she did tell me this summer she was working with the general and writing a second book. now, a senior intelligence officials the detention claims are categorically not true. the damage is really done just by her putting that information out there. >> how do they conclude now that there's no national security risk? >> well, that's why the fbi steps in. the fbi is charged with an investigation. details of this leaking out all over the place, what was in those emails. they need to go through those emails to determine whether or not there was a security risk. we know that it's not illegal arks coringed to a senior intelligence official, affairs are not automatically considered a security violation unless the affair is going on with a person from another country and it hasn't been reported, but you can ha
is the source of all of her information david petraeus? given her extraordinary access to the former director of the cia, it would have been a reasonable assumption, but, again, her access to him was not in any way in an official capacity, hoe she did tell me this summer she was working with the general and writing a second book. now, a senior intelligence officials the detention claims are categorically not true. the damage is really done just by her putting that information out there....
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is the source of all of her information david petraeus? given her extraordinary access to the former director of the cia, it would have been a reasonable assumption. but, again, her access to him was not in any way in an official capacity. though she did tell me she was working with the general on writing a second book. a senior intelligence official says the claims are categorically not true, nobody was ever held at the annex before, during or after the attacks. but with something like this, ted, the damage is really done just by the nature of her putting information out there. >> what more do we know about his relationship with her, with paula broadwell? >> well, as we heard a little bit earlier, the general has been reaching out to friends over the weekend, and even today, telling them that the relationship began a couple of months after he started as director of the cia, but it lasted up until four months ago. we also know that the two were seen together about a month ago. what we don't know is if there was any conversation about the p
is the source of all of her information david petraeus? given her extraordinary access to the former director of the cia, it would have been a reasonable assumption. but, again, her access to him was not in any way in an official capacity. though she did tell me she was working with the general on writing a second book. a senior intelligence official says the claims are categorically not true, nobody was ever held at the annex before, during or after the attacks. but with something like this,...
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the man who was the head of the cia at the time, david petd petraeus. he testified behind closed doors to both the house and senate intelligence committees. dana bash was there as lawmakers were leaving this meeting. she's joining us from capitol hill, and, dana, there's been a lot of outrage about these conflicting intelligence reports on this attack. was there anything that petraeus said today to kind of clear up some of the confusion. >> it seemed that he certainly tried. when we're talking about confusion, it's whether or not the intelligence community gave appropriate or enough information, maybe emphasis is the right word, on what turns out to be more of the case, which is there are extremist elements that are behind the attack on the consulate in benghazi, much more than a protest which doesn't even appear to have existed. that was what petraeus came in here to try to clear up, but the republicans and democrats are coming out, and republicans for the most part who were talking said that they didn't think that petraeus's recollection of his initia
the man who was the head of the cia at the time, david petd petraeus. he testified behind closed doors to both the house and senate intelligence committees. dana bash was there as lawmakers were leaving this meeting. she's joining us from capitol hill, and, dana, there's been a lot of outrage about these conflicting intelligence reports on this attack. was there anything that petraeus said today to kind of clear up some of the confusion. >> it seemed that he certainly tried. when we're...
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go long. >>> one week after resigning as cia chief, david petraeus testifies. the hearings were closed. peter king says petraeus testified the cia quickly pegged the attack as terrorism, a conflict with initial reports from the obama administration. >> general petraeus' testimony today was that from the start he had told us that this was a terrorist attack, terrorist-involved from the start. i told him my questions, i had a different recollection of that, the overwhelming amount of evidence is that it was it arose out of a spontaneous demonstration and was not a terrorist attack. >> so it was u.n. ambassador susan rice who initially said the attack was a spontaneous reaction to the anti-muslim film posted online. she was defended. today, by senator dianne feinstein. >> what susan rice, ambassador rice did, was use talking points, put out originally by the cia, signed off by the intelligence community, and those talking points, as i understand it, were requested by the house committee, and all the intelligence community signed off on it. the key is that they wer
go long. >>> one week after resigning as cia chief, david petraeus testifies. the hearings were closed. peter king says petraeus testified the cia quickly pegged the attack as terrorism, a conflict with initial reports from the obama administration. >> general petraeus' testimony today was that from the start he had told us that this was a terrorist attack, terrorist-involved from the start. i told him my questions, i had a different recollection of that, the overwhelming amount...
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>> i think there's a broad consensus that david petraeus's instincts are sound. he believed rightly that by virtue of being head of the ci achlt, when you put yourself in a position it's a serious matter and it's precisely what happened and made ex be ten sif use of a personal gmail account and including hackers by foreign states and a resignation was fully warranted. despite the fact, that again, david petraeus, a figure widely celebrated as a very impressive leader, this is a very sad story but i don't think we can begrudge him, this decision. >> let's talk about this goal of bipartisanship in washington, especially as it relates to the fiscal cliff. the house speaker vowing to find some common ground. earlier i spoke to george mitchell about how hopeful he is about their vow and he thinks that, you know, officials -- well, there's reason to believe that everyone should be hopeful. this is what he had to say. >> making it personal makes a difference. you know, you tend in any area of human activity to work better with people you know, like, and respect. i think
>> i think there's a broad consensus that david petraeus's instincts are sound. he believed rightly that by virtue of being head of the ci achlt, when you put yourself in a position it's a serious matter and it's precisely what happened and made ex be ten sif use of a personal gmail account and including hackers by foreign states and a resignation was fully warranted. despite the fact, that again, david petraeus, a figure widely celebrated as a very impressive leader, this is a very sad...
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remember, part of the reason why these lawmakers wanted to hear from david petraeus is because he only came to congress once to brief them. after that, he took a trip to libya. so he didn't have a chance to give them his trip report which is really crucial as one senator told me, a big stone left unturned. >> and got another question i need to ask, the star person in this entire day, whether it is the senate or the house intelligence committee hearings is general petraeus. normally we get some kind of view of people walking into these meetings, walking out of these meetings, whether they stop for the cameras or not is up it them. today however nothing. we never saw him anywhere. that is unusual. >> it is unusual. not for lack of trying, i can tell you that, ashleigh. at the beginning you showed the various cameras around and that's not the half of it. there are cameras all over the capitol complex, not just ours, our competitors as well trying to get a picture of david petraeus. we're still trying. we believe he is still sort of down the hall behind me on the senate 150id. we have a me
remember, part of the reason why these lawmakers wanted to hear from david petraeus is because he only came to congress once to brief them. after that, he took a trip to libya. so he didn't have a chance to give them his trip report which is really crucial as one senator told me, a big stone left unturned. >> and got another question i need to ask, the star person in this entire day, whether it is the senate or the house intelligence committee hearings is general petraeus. normally we get...
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the security concerns surrounding david petraeus's relationship with his biographer broadwell. you have found out new information about why the fbi was actually searching her home in north carolina earlier in the week. what were they looking for, and what do they believe her role is? >> well, what we're hearing now, suzanne, is that david petraeus, at some point earlier on had designated broadwell as his archivist. that is, to be the re pos itory of sort of the documents related to his military career. you can imagine we often think of that in relation to prior presidents who have a library david petraeus was assembling and leaving his documents, and he had broadwell, worry told, doing that for him. pretty interesting, suzanne, because, of course, we heard from surrogates for david petraeus that the relationship ended four months ago, so it's a question as to why would you have continued to have her be the repositivetory for these documents? we saw a five-hour search at broadwell's home. many documents pulled out. we're looking at those pictures now. clearly, the concern of the
the security concerns surrounding david petraeus's relationship with his biographer broadwell. you have found out new information about why the fbi was actually searching her home in north carolina earlier in the week. what were they looking for, and what do they believe her role is? >> well, what we're hearing now, suzanne, is that david petraeus, at some point earlier on had designated broadwell as his archivist. that is, to be the re pos itory of sort of the documents related to his...
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he just exited a hearing that david petraeus was testifying in. of course, surrounding what happened in benghazi, libya. let's listen to congressman king. >> the original talking points prepared by the cia were different from the ones that were finally put out. as far as general petraeus, his testimony today was that from the start he had told us that this was a terrorist attack, terrorists involved from the start. my questions had a very different recollection of that, clear impression we were given is that the overwhelming amount of evidence is that it was -- rose out of a spontaneous demonstration and it was not a terrorist attack and pointed out the following week when matt olson said it was a terrorist attack and it made headlines because before then, the administration was saying it was not terrorists. it was very cordial, as you will. we all thanked him for his service. i think he has a different impression of the impressions he left on september 14th. >> mr. chairman, can you tell us whether or not his affair or security surrounding his af
he just exited a hearing that david petraeus was testifying in. of course, surrounding what happened in benghazi, libya. let's listen to congressman king. >> the original talking points prepared by the cia were different from the ones that were finally put out. as far as general petraeus, his testimony today was that from the start he had told us that this was a terrorist attack, terrorists involved from the start. my questions had a very different recollection of that, clear impression...
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would know all the same information that david petraeus knows. but the question on the table, carol, is whether that's going to be politically enough for congress. are they so irritated about this entire matter that they will subpoena petraeus in the weeks ahead and compel him to come testify about what he knows about the benghazi attacks? >> barbara starr reporting live for us at the pentagon this morning. this affair is baffling on so many levels. how could a man with such a pristine reputation show such awful judgment? and how could this woman have such unprecedented access? the answer may be as simple as one slippery step at a time. listen to these comments from general petraeus's mistress, ms. broadwell. they sure have a different meaning than when she first said them to cnn back in february. >> at some point i think he realized i was taking this research very seriously. i was sharing hardship with the troops and risk and so forth and decided to open up a little bit more access. but we had a relationship before i went there as far as this di
would know all the same information that david petraeus knows. but the question on the table, carol, is whether that's going to be politically enough for congress. are they so irritated about this entire matter that they will subpoena petraeus in the weeks ahead and compel him to come testify about what he knows about the benghazi attacks? >> barbara starr reporting live for us at the pentagon this morning. this affair is baffling on so many levels. how could a man with such a pristine...
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>> david petraeus has those answers. he is out of the cia now. if he sits down and tells the truth as he knows it, doesn't shave off the edges, we will get our answers. and congress will, too. we take it from the next step. but somebody, i'm sorry, should be fired for benghazi. should have closed that place down. >> robert baer, former cia operative. thank you so much for joining us today. >>> in the next hour, president obama will head to new york to meet families trying to recover from superstorm sandy. will he visit staten island, one of the hardest hit areas, and take an aerial tour. he will also meet with city officials, first responders and f fema staff. this will be the president's first time touring the region in new york. he he will be joined by new york governor andrew cuomo and mayor michael bloomberg and members of his cabinet. >>> former republican nominee, mitt romney now claiming the president won re-election by giving gifts to after r african-americans, hispanics and younger voters. this is how romney explained his loss in a phone
>> david petraeus has those answers. he is out of the cia now. if he sits down and tells the truth as he knows it, doesn't shave off the edges, we will get our answers. and congress will, too. we take it from the next step. but somebody, i'm sorry, should be fired for benghazi. should have closed that place down. >> robert baer, former cia operative. thank you so much for joining us today. >>> in the next hour, president obama will head to new york to meet families trying...
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and that is one four-star general named david petraeus. two and a half weeks after sandy, president obama prepares to see the on going misery in parts of new york city. we are live in staten island this hour. >>> but we begin with general petraeus. no longer the top most of the echelons of national security. but not consigned to oblivion either not by any stretch. we've got two signature pieces of reporting this hour. "time" magazine is reporting that petraeus's biographer turned mistress once toyed with entering politics. she reportedly told acquaintances backing in jul that will gop "money men" had approached her about a senate run from north carolina. she says she was "tempted." "time" magazine reports but petraeus was strongly against it. is it "time" is also reporting on the internal fbi struggle over whether to tell the white house what and whom they were investigating. it turns out the white house wasn't informed till the night of the election. three days before general petraeus resigned. on a personal level, general petraeus is tel
and that is one four-star general named david petraeus. two and a half weeks after sandy, president obama prepares to see the on going misery in parts of new york city. we are live in staten island this hour. >>> but we begin with general petraeus. no longer the top most of the echelons of national security. but not consigned to oblivion either not by any stretch. we've got two signature pieces of reporting this hour. "time" magazine is reporting that petraeus's biographer...
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well, all i can tell you is i spoke to a long-standing professional colleague of david petraeus' and petraeus is going to say we are told, you know, be very straightforward, that he believed right from the beginning this involved insurgent/terrorist type activity, but that they had some indications that possibly it could have been tied also to those ongoing riots back in cairo, egypt, over a film. he's going to talk about all of it. what they knew, when they knew it. the key question that senators believe they want to get to is did petraeus have an indication off the bat it was a straight up terrorist attack and either not tell the white house or not tell them on capitol hill. >> and, barbara, we also heard the president in his press conference say that he has no evidence from what he's been able to see that classified information was disclosed. however during that question and answer period, that may happen, now on friday, is there concern from the pentagon there might be some potential security breaches that would be revealed? >> reporter: well, you mean from his affair with paula
well, all i can tell you is i spoke to a long-standing professional colleague of david petraeus' and petraeus is going to say we are told, you know, be very straightforward, that he believed right from the beginning this involved insurgent/terrorist type activity, but that they had some indications that possibly it could have been tied also to those ongoing riots back in cairo, egypt, over a film. he's going to talk about all of it. what they knew, when they knew it. the key question that...
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again, david, general petraeus stepping down as the chief of the cia. stay top of mind with customers? from deals that bring them in with an offer... to social media promotions that turn fans into customers... to events that engage and create buzz... to e-mails that keep loyal customers coming back, our easy-to-use tools will keep you in front of your customers. see what's right for you at constantcontact.com/try. >>> i want you to know before we talk economy again we are working a breaking news story the head of the cia general petraeus has now resigned. the president just this afternoon over a phone call accepted his resignation. we will push the foyer story forward in a moment but first the other big story of the day, our nation's speeding toward what is known as a fiscal cliff. the nasty combination of steep tax hikes and budget cuts that could affect om almost all of us in a matter of weeks. now the election is over, it's time for washington to get in gear and do something about it. you can bet there's plenty going on behind the scenes. president o
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despite the sex scandal, should david petraeus still testify about benghazi? one pennsylvania congressman says absolutely yet. and success may be fleeting for donald trump. >> get up -- >> i'm santa claus. >> let me see for myself. >> news room starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> thanks so much for being with us. safe to say donald trump will not be part of president obama's big ceo meeting this afternoon despite the fact business leaders an the president haven't enjoyed a warm relationship, he's going to hold a big summit with the ceos. he'll entertain 12 at the white house. the topic of course, the fiscal cliff. business leaders have started to lobby the country and congress with an ad campaign. >> if congress does not act, america's entire can economy will be at risk. america's ceos have a message for washington. >> the top priority for us so to advance policies that will get the economy growing again. >> the country has to have a higher rate of growth. that begins by addressing the fiscal cliff issue. >> at the white house today, 12
despite the sex scandal, should david petraeus still testify about benghazi? one pennsylvania congressman says absolutely yet. and success may be fleeting for donald trump. >> get up -- >> i'm santa claus. >> let me see for myself. >> news room starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> thanks so much for being with us. safe to say donald trump will not be part of president obama's big ceo meeting this afternoon despite the fact business leaders...
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former cia director david petraeus is breaking his silence with the media speaking for the first time to our sister network hln's keira phillips about the sexual affair that ended his career. she has known petraeus for years interviewing him for many stories on the troops, including a 30-minute live interview on the anniversary of the iraq war. she's had several conversations with him since the scandal broke. petraeus told her he shepped down solely because of the affair with paula broadwell, not because he was scheduled to testify in the attack about the attack on benghazi. he also emphasized he wants to make things right with his wife. >> in our first conversation he had told me had he engaged in something dishonorable, and he sought to do the honorable thing in response, and that was to come forward. he was very clear that he screweded up totally, and it was all his fault, and he felt fortunate to have a war that was far better than he deserves. obviously he is taking it really hard. he knows he made a big mistake, and he does want to move forward making things work with his family
former cia director david petraeus is breaking his silence with the media speaking for the first time to our sister network hln's keira phillips about the sexual affair that ended his career. she has known petraeus for years interviewing him for many stories on the troops, including a 30-minute live interview on the anniversary of the iraq war. she's had several conversations with him since the scandal broke. petraeus told her he shepped down solely because of the affair with paula broadwell,...